If those people don't show up, Microsoft will keep chasing them, perhaps through the Russian legal system, Boscovich wrote.

In March, law enforcement officers raided hosting providers in the U.S. that had infrastructure that supported the botnet. Microsoft filed a lawsuit in a U.S. district court against 11 unnamed defendants that the company is still trying to identify, the articles explain.

The advertisements will run for 30 days in the Delovoy Peterburg newspaper, located in St. Petersburg, and in The Moscow News, a daily newspaper, Boscovich wrote.